Number of old git gamers

TheHairyFairy

Reading posts on boards.ie has made me realise there must be a large spread of gamer ages. The older guys rant at the younger guys and vice versa, /me puts hand up.

So in the interest of science, lets see what the spread really is.

humanji

Mental or physical age?

Kur4mA

I r 26.

jonski

I am the one and only..........so far .

Creamy Goodness

i'm 21, but i rant like a 40 year old.

i don't get time to play games as much as i did before i had a job and college.

i kind of feel old for playing certain games tbh like mario etc. but then again i think how fiendishly difficult some of these games are and think "how the hell does a 3+ year old complete this"

Silverfish

jonski wrote: »

I am the one and only..........so far .

I'm catching up on you there Jonners, we discussed this already.




Oh wait, I'm not a guy, it doesn't count. Hurrah! I withhold my answer.

TheHairyFairy

jonski wrote: »

I am the one and only..........so far .

I R not too far behind you.

Maximilian

I'm 35 and three quarters. Gamers these days have it easy - wide world internet tubing, playterminals, XPacks and that other toilet one. Back in my day, you had to wait 20 minutes to load a game on a tape. None of your re-mapping keys either let me tell you. Broke 10 joysticks on those Decathlon games so I did. 3.5k ram but did we ever complain? Only had F1-F5 so we did, none of yer fancy num lock keys. Kids these days don't know what its like to type in your own game from a magazine in BASIC. oh dear, not again....

/wets self and calls for nursie

Gizzle

I'm wise beyond my years. I knows to put discs in data side down now. And that the wireless isn't just a hulking wooden behemoth spurting out Gay Byrne in the corner.

K.O.Kiki

So this forum isn't populated by 13-yr old boys? Who knew?
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.......I wonder how different the Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft forum make-up is...

Retr0gamer

Just turned 25 recently. It scares me that when I meet some of the boards regular they always say that they expected a 12 year old boy with a mario t-shirt and not a fine hunky specimen of a man :P

Creamy Goodness

it also freaks me out a little when people on here do their top games of all time and include halo on it and yet omit any other fps that preceed halo and bettered it in terms of story and gameplay.

*halo is just an example, people know my story on xbox and halo so let's not turn the rest of the thread into a bitch fight

jonski

Silverfish wrote: »

I'm catching up on you there Jonners, we discussed this already.

Liar , I met you , you are only 21 .

TheHairyFairy wrote: »

I R not too far behind you.

Thanks for trying to make me feel better , but it didn't work , now go back to playing with your lego child ! btw , if I end up being the only one clicking that button then I am coming looking for you as I feel it was a trap setup by all the boardsies ...

Doctor DooM

From the poll, apparently yo can't be "retro" if you are under 20.

28 here, gaming started with the c64.

LOAD, DAMMIT

Kinetic^

25

po0k

24

jonski

SDooM wrote: »

gaming started with the c64.

LOAD, DAMMIT

ah the difference between then and now , loading up a game now and wife calls me for dinner ..ah ffs . loading up a game back then and get called for dinner ..nice one , is there dessert ?

trellheim

Does beginning gaming with Space Invaders, Breakout and Pong count ?

Why isn't Defender in the all time great Shoot-em-ups ?

Anyone else remember the sit-down tables of Asteroids ?

And as for home gaming, give me Jet Set Willy or Atic Atac


Where's me VIC-20 , or even a ZX-80


Or a BBC Micro learning to play Elite and thinking Yee Ha

But I'm 39

Malice

Maximilian wrote: »

I'm 35 and three quarters. Gamers these days have it easy - wide world internet tubing, playterminals, XPacks and that other toilet one. Back in my day, you had to wait 20 minutes to load a game on a tape. None of your re-mapping keys either let me tell you. Broke 10 joysticks on those Decathlon games so I did. 3.5k ram but did we ever complain? Only had F1-F5 so we did, none of yer fancy num lock keys. Kids these days don't know what its like to type in your own game from a magazine in BASIC. oh dear, not again....

/wets self and calls for nursie

I'm 29. Started gaming on the C-64 (which went from F1-F8 and also contained unusual keys like Restore and Run-Stop). I don't have as much time for gaming these days as I used to but when I do have the time I find myself replaying a lot of old classics rather than newer games. I find the MAME and various C64 emulators to be a great nostalgia trip. Not having to wait 20 mins for a game to load is great!

hoppo254

Im 26 , Started with a vectrex and have kept every console since.... The backroom in my house is full of storage boxes full of consoles and their games . I will never part with them. My great granchildren will be given a play of them while i stand back and say " See this is much better than your Playstation 4293 or your Xbox 1080*2x6 ,none of your fancy VR helmets or that nonsense!"

Shiminay

I'm 30 in April which tbh, frightens me

writetojd

Damn, being 25 I thought I was a bit old for this gaming stuff. Dont feel so bad now. Glad to see there are alot more the same ages wasting their time appropriately

Fnz

It seems that the under 20s are too busy playing their precious computer games to bother with this poll. :mad:

Doctor DooM

jonski wrote: »

ah the difference between then and now , loading up a game now and wife calls me for dinner ..ah ffs . loading up a game back then and get called for dinner ..nice one , is there dessert ?

Oh yeah, anything to get away from the sodding load screen

Dingatron

trellheim wrote: »

Does beginning gaming with Space Invaders, Breakout and Pong count ?

Why isn't Defender in the all time great Shoot-em-ups ?

Anyone else remember the sit-down tables of Asteroids ?

And as for home gaming, give me Jet Set Willy or Atic Atac


Where's me VIC-20 , or even a ZX-80


Or a BBC Micro learning to play Elite and thinking Yee Ha

But I'm 39

Snap likewise. Exact same introduction but we'd the ZX81 lol. Chuckie Egg ftw!
It was our generation where it all started to happen I suppose and I for one have no intention of stopping just yet, old git or not.

TheHairyFairy

My reasons for posting this was to see if there where enough gamers to form an old gits gaming group, especially to play the older multiplayer games. It seems there may well be enough of us. Lets see how many more turn up.

cabrwab

Was told i at christmas i was a big child when i was handed my PS3. I should start growing up NEVER!! Atari, sega mastersystem, NES, atari ste (it was an e cause it had 1MB of ram ohhhhh), megadrive, megacd, gameboy, PC, playstation, PS2, PSP, now a PS3.!!! All great fun and all retro ones thrown into a skip while my back was turned!

CCCP^

23/m/ wanna cybar?

sparky360

started with C64, then went on to have a Atari 2600, Atari 520ST (didn't have the 1mb version ), NES, Mastersystem, MegaDrive, SNES, MegaCD, Atari Jaguar, then onto playstation, N64, Xbox, DreamCast, Ps2, GameCube, Xbox 360 and now a Wii

Oh I'm 26 by the way

trellheim

C-64s users are futurists [ at least I still think so ]

Kenjd

Turned 34 just last week! With 3 kids, job, mortgage and another adult in my life I dont get that much time to play games these days!!! Although my wife would disagree! Still have an atari 2600 in the attic as well as one of those old Binatone systems with pong on it! Games seem to be everywhere these days.
Ouch .. all this typing in hurting my arthritis.

L31mr0d

ah.... ya should of left the poll so we could see who picked which option.

Can't believe there aren't more people in here under 20...

myself, i'm the big two five

Clover

i will be 35 at the end of April :eek:

Call Me Jimmy

That poll is racist against 20 year olds like myself.

hoppo254

My 6 Year old Daughter beats me nearly everytime at Wii Bowling. Her Ma says its unfair then when i challenge and beat her at Street Figther 2.


Just as a point of interest does anybody else here play there fave retro games using Rom's ?

Personally i use my PSP to play old SNES and Megadrive games right now.:D

Fergob

37 years old, started on 48K Spectrum, then Commodore 64 ( still have 'em both in the shed )

Married with two kids , so only selectively game these days, every monday night mates call up , one p.c. has game we're currently getting through ( currently crysis ) other p.c. has mame emulator, so Time Pilot is currently getting the biggest workout !

Also work in for Logitech, so that keeps the Gaming Buzz alive in the job too !

Borderfox

I'm 38 and my computing started with a ZX81

cabrwab

Never said earlier 26! Just.
Oh and do i still play old games oh yeah, i got a cd full of roms from "the genisis!" and snes, there fantastic. I had to get the sonic collection for the PS2, and i keep been tempted by the collections you see coming out every now and again. I know i know handing over my hard earned cash!

o1s1n

TheHairyFairy wrote: »

My reasons for posting this was to see if there where enough gamers to form an old gits gaming group, especially to play the older multiplayer games.

What do you define as old? I'll be 24 in July. Can I has membership?

Silverfish

o1s1n wrote: »

What do you define as old? I'll be 24 in July. Can I has membership?

Yeah, I was curious about this too. What's old?

Earthhorse

SDooM wrote: »

28 here, gaming started with the c64.

LOAD, DAMMIT

Ready, Run, Ready?

hoppo254 wrote: »

Just as a point of interest does anybody else here play there fave retro games using Rom's ?

You might try the Arcade & Retro forum under the Games menu; just don't ask about ROMs.

Fergob

Borderfox :I'm 38 and my computing started with a ZX81

God, my mate had that , when i had the spectrum 48K...it sucked so much ass ! though Death Chase was a pretty cool game on it....you did have Death chase didn't you ?!!

_CreeD_

35, or as I prefer it I just celebrated the 16th anniversary of my 19th birthday.

PS.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just turned 25 recently. It scares me that when I meet some of the boards regular they always say that they expected a 12 year old boy with a mario t-shirt and not a fine hunky specimen of a man :P

Shouldn't this be under Personals and Dating?

TheHairyFairy

Personally I feel that old in gaming is 30+.

Now don't all rush to shout at me at once. If you are into multiplayer online gaming then there comes a stage where you just cannot keep up with the younger players. If you put enough time into the game then you can have some good rounds, but someone younger can pwn your ass simply coz they have that minutely faster reaction time.

I was thinking that if any of the 30+ players, note that I have corrected "guys" this time Silverfish, my apologies for that earlier, are up for forming a gaming group where everyone might be of a more equal skill then I'm all up for forming it. It wont be a clan as such or anything like that, just a bunch of players getting together for some level pegging fragging.

Games like Q3, ET, BF1942 etc might be par for the course. What do peeps think?

Silverfish

I'd agree with you to be honest. Having watched some of the younger kids playing, it looks like their fingers have no bones in them or something. I think on the plus side of 25, your reflexes just slow down.



Was only joking on the guys thing, its not a problem

Mikeyt086

18.

This April will be my first ever GTA game that i didnt need my Mum to buy for me.

jonski

Silverfish wrote: »

Yeah, I was curious about this too. What's old?

yeah , ye had to push it and ask that question didn't ye .


ps : what do you think of my Reclusa ? you can see the difference in my typing ?

Silverfish

jonski wrote: »

yeah , ye had to push it and ask that question didn't ye .


ps : what do you think of my Reclusa ? you can see the difference in my typing ?

Beautiful, Jonski, just beautiful.

jonski

Silverfish wrote: »

Beautiful, Jonski, just beautiful.

enough about me , whattya think of the KB ?

Doodee

Peh, Saitek FTW

Jackabo

26 here
I wouldnt see age holding back a gamer from here on in,granted that you dont see to many gamers 40+ at the moment, but thats probably just down to theyre generation not being around at the birth of gaming and would rather just went down to the local hall for a showaddywaddy or Joe Dolan gig back then.
I'd like & hope to see myself still playing away when im getting on a bit in the future,granted i'd be naturally a bit slower than a youngin through age & decades of buckfast abuse,but as long as im enjoying its all that would matter.
Probably also like the decay of your fashion sence as you get older you'd start to go a bit quieter and duller in your flavour of games and your manner of playing them ie ..i couldnt see myself being 45+ playing action packed shoot-em ups while throwing verbal abuse at yanks down the mic (could you get too old to abuse yanks ?),but then again its all up to how you get your kicks in life !.
All 'n all your as young as you feel and should never be too old for anything in life